Fact and Fancy
Edition: Discus Books, First Edition March 1972
2. No More Ice Ages
Third paragraph, pg 23:
The ash of coal and oil isn?t radioactive to be sure; it is only good harmless carbon dioxide, which is already present in the atmosphere anyway.
3. Thin Air
Fifth paragraph, pg 36:
The mercury in the tube started pouring out, to be sure, but only to the extent of a few inches.
4. Catching Up With Newton
Pg 47, 10th paragraph
To be sure, actual heavenly bodies are not uniformly dense, but Newton also showed this central-point business to be true for spheres which consisted of a series of layers (like an onion) each of which was uniform in density, though the density might vary from layer to layer.
6th paragraph, Pg. 58
To be sure, in powered flight, we don?t have to attain escape velocity, we can just keep the engines going.
5. Of Capture and escape
Pg 68, paragraph 1
SaveCancelCloseETo be sure, it [the first successful Moon-probe] has a higher velocity than the Earth has so that it?s orbit bellies out into the space between Earth and Mars.
6. Catskills in the Sky
Pg 80, sixth paragraph:
To be sure, Jupiter is further from the Sun than Mars is and would be less strongly illuminated, so that its globe as seen from Amalthea would be only 3/10 as bright as that which Mars presents to Phobos.
9. The Planet of the Double Sun
Pg. 111, final paragraph
To be sure, since Sun B is much larger than the other planets, it could be expected to have a satellite much larger and more distant from itself than is true for any other planet.
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View From A Height
Doubleday & Company, Inc., First edition, 1963
That's About The Size of It
5th paragraph, pg 10
This is respectable to be sure.
2. The Egg and Wee
Second paragraph, page 18
To be sure, the average man may contain 50,000,000,000,000 (fifty trillion) cellsand the largest whale as many as 100,000,000,000,000,000 (a hundred quadrillion) cells, but these are exceptional.
3. That's Life
First paragraph, pg. 38
To be sure, there are human cells (such as those of the heart) that run together and are not properly separated by membranes.
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Okay, there are 14 more essays in this collection... we'll leave you to knock yourself out...certain in the knowledge that there are many more "to be sure"'s to be found.
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